OHT Brighton: Working in the gaps: creating community within healthcare

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When Dr Hannah Dawe and Dr Layla Brookfield set up Gas Gals, a mentoring space for women working as anaesthetists, someone asked whether they'd got permission to start it.

"From whom?," she said.

Hannah is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine. Alongside the day job she's building a digital tool that screens patients in preoperative assessment for pain-related risk factors - catching things early rather than dealing with the consequences later. Both projects come from the same instinct: if the structure you need doesn't exist, that's not a reason to wait.

It's an instinct we recognise. Creating spaces where more people can belong, contribute and lead is what One Health Tech exists to do - and Hannah's approach sits closely alongside ours.

Join your hosts Rose Bundock and Deborah Fortescue as we talk about starting things before anyone signs them off, building community around a demanding clinical role, and what changes when you stop asking.

About your speaker

Dr Hannah Dawe has 20 years’ NHS experience, including 6 years at Consultant level. To gain flexibility to care for her son with type 1 diabetes, she now works part-time in the private sector alongside developing a Class IIb SaMD designed to identify patients at risk of opioid-related complications and improve outcomes.